Trans-tourism: an integrated approach for the study of transformative role of tourism in the 21st century
The team has been set up specifically for TRANS-TOURISM project to ensure that there is a specific expert for each faces of the project. It involves members from the Institute for Tourism and an expert from the Institute for Development and International Relations.
Irena Ateljević, PhD is a senior scientific associate ate the Institute for Tourism since 2011. Within the Institute she deals with the cultural complexities of gender, class, age and ethnicity in the production and consumption of tourist spaces and experiences, and how their intersection reproduces power relations of injustice and inequality. She teaches at the universities in Croatia and in Wageningen University, Department of socio-spatial analysis, Netherlands as a Guest Professor. She is also the founder and leader of the international research network of critical tourism international conferences.
Danijela Angelina Jelinčić, PhD is the senior research adviser at the Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb. She has almost 18 years of professional experience in the interdisciplinary research of culture, cultural tourism, creative tourism, cultural/creative industries, cultural policies, cultural heritage management, development strategies and virtual culture. She has teaching and professional experience as consultant tourism, member of the Croatian Ethnological Society and member of the Culturelink review editorial board.
Sanda Čorak, PhD is a scientific advisor and has been the managing of the Institute since 2001. She has more than twenty years of experience in tourism market research and segmentation of tourism demand, destination marketing and tourism governance. She is editor-in chief of the scientific journal TOURISM and she has also established scientific edition of the Institute. She teaches at the universities in Croatia and abroad as a quest lecturer.
Neven Ivandić, PhD, is the expert adviser at the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia. As an economist he is mainly engaged in macroeconomic impact of tourism, covering areas such as tourism satellite account and measuring the competitive position of the tourism sector. His vast experience in planning tourism development applies to issues of the development of tourism destinations, products and companies, development strategies and evaluation and management of tourism destinations and businesses. He is the leader of the Institute’s team for economic impacts of tourism and forecasting.
Neda Telišman-Košuta, M.A., is currently employed as an expert advisor at the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia. Her main field of work is in tourism destination marketing and development.
Snježana Boranić Živoder, Ph.D., is the scientific associates at the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia. Area of her research interest include strategic planning of tourism development and destination marketing and management. She is a leader of member of many projects in this field and author of numerous scientific and professional papers.
Zrinka Marušić, mag. math., univ.spec.oec., is the expert adviser at the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia. As a mathematician and statistician she is mainly engaged in setting the methodology of scientific research in tourism as well as in the application of statistical methods in data processing and analysis. Her main topics of interest include quantitative survey methodology with the emphasis on sample design and analysis, methods for estimation of tourism impacts and methods for valuation of public good in tourism.
Ivan Sever, univ.spec.oec., is the expert assistant at the Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia. He is mainly engaged in quantitative research in tourism, focusing on the application of statistical methods in data processing and analysis. His main topics of interest include knowledge extraction and statistical inference in tourism research and application of dynamic programming and game theory in assessing tourism sustainability.
